Quote

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Jasper Fforde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Sake
Growth
Philosophy
Purely
Cancer

More quotes by Jasper Fforde

Image
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
Jasper Fforde
Image
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
Jasper Fforde
Image
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
Jasper Fforde
Image
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
Jasper Fforde
Image
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
Jasper Fforde
Image
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
Jasper Fforde
Image
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
Jasper Fforde